Frank Tobolsky

PRACTICE AREAS: Real Estate; Business Transactions and Commercial Finance

IN BRIEF: Frank Tobolsky, a partner with Lamm Rubenstone, LLC, focuses his practice in commercial real estate and business transactions (sales and acquisitions), office and shopping center leasing, development, financing, loan documentation and loan workouts. After graduating law school, Frank worked with a large Philadelphia firm and then as general counsel with a South Florida developer. Before joining the Firm, Frank headed his own boutique real estate practice for more than 15 years.

EXPERIENCE: Frank has negotiated and closed many commercial and real estate loans for lenders, and counseled small businesses and entrepreneurs in business acquisitions and financing. With 20 years of experience to his credit, Frank successfully negotiated local as well as anchor tenant leases, and also landlord-tenant disputes. He published articles in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Practical Real Estate Lawyer and The Legal Ingelligencer. Mr. Tobolsky authored standard residential lease forms to comply with Pennsylvania's Plain Language Consumer Contract Act (published by Blumberg’s Law Products). His comprehensive short retail lease form is available online at www.blumberglegalforms.com. Frank chaired the Pennsylvania Bar Association’ Landlord Tenant Law Committee, and edited the Philadelphia Bar Association's Real Estate Lawyer newsletter.

STATES OF PRACTICE: Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida

EDUCATION: JD University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1987
BA Rutgers University, 1984 (summa cum laude)

Awards: Peer-voted “Pennsylvania Real Estate SuperLawyer” in 2004, 2009 and 2010. Frequently speaks and plans courses for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He’s a creative writer, and periodically contributes to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. Tobolsky is Martindale-Hubbell "AV®" rated.